THAI LANGUAGE LESSONS
L31 - Jokes

Just a few jokes for a bit of fun but also useful vocabulary and examples
of sentence construction.

The Thai word for joke is poot len, literally 'speak play'.
You migt also hear lor len which is more of a tease then
a joke. The
Thai word for comedy is dtalok.

Joke 1

koon hen fai daeng mai ? ( did
you see the red light? )

hen krup, pom mai hen dumruat. ( I
did, I didn't see the policeman )

Thais quite like this one. It is not running the red light that was
the mistake, it was getting caught. Note that hen is
'see'. So the question sentence is literally 'you see light red?' The
affirmative answer is done by the typical Thai construction
of repeating the verb
hen krup. And then literally 'I didn't see policeman'.

Thais often carry Buddha images for good luck so in this joke a Thai
man wonders why he crashed his car when he has so many Buddha images
inside. So the first two sentences are straghtforward but note that chon is
to crash or collide.

Then we have rot korng pom (my car) mee (has) pra (buddha
image) yeuh (many). Note the pra in
this case is a shortened form of pra poot om (buddha
image) but can also be a shortened form of pra poot (buddha) or pra
song (monk).